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Daily News Hungary Daily News Hungary · 24/02/2019
· Politics

Survival of Jobbik at stake in EP election, says spokesman

Jobbik Hungary

The survival of Jobbik is at stake in May’s European Parliament election, the conservative party’s deputy parliamentary group leader and spokesman, György Szilágyi, told a press conference on Saturday.

Speaking after the party congress, Szilagyi said that winning enough votes in the EP election would mean that (ruling) “Fidesz wouldn’t dare to ban the party”, which, he added, is currently the strongest opposition party.

Szilágyi said Jobbik is fighting against a “dictatorship” which gets its power from “blackmail, corruption, accumulated assets, hands-on management of state institutions and its own media empire”.

Prime Minister “Viktor Orbán is afraid of the consequences and that’s why he’s afraid of Jobbik”, as the party is capable of dismantling the “system of national cooperation” and holding its leaders accountable, he added.

At the congress, the members adopted an amendment to the party’s statutes that allows members to join another – still to be established – party parallel to their membership in Jobbik, “in justified cases” and with the express permission of the party leadership.

Jobbik has recently opened 44 new offices and taken in 400 new members, and it aims to double that growth, he said.

Regarding cooperation with other opposition parties, Szilágyi said green LMP is the only party “Jobbik can see a closer cooperation with”, but working with others on specific issues is unavoidable.

Featured image: www.facebook.com/JobbikMagyarorszagertMozgalom

Source: MTI

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